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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Intensive training of the student's unique expressive abilities. Focus on training the actor's instrument: the body, voice, and creative imagination. Through structured ensemble and solo work, students develop the basic tools of performance: concentration, relaxation, intention, physicalization, and moment-to-moment play. May be repeated for degree credit for a maximum of 8 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Fall (3-4), Spring (3-4), May Term (3 credits). Workshop-level play production. Designed to provide the student with performance and production experience at a level between classroom work and mainstage work. Prerequisites: THA 130 and 140. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Workshop format designed to liberate, expand, and integrate the student's vocal and physical expressive capacities. Through structured vocal and physical excercises, students deepen their technical and intuitive understanding of the voice, body, and mind relationship. May be repeated for degree credit with permission from the department chair. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Studio class focused on tools and strategies used to design scenery for the stage. Design techniques presented include approaches to text analysis, design research methods, creating a conceptual point of view, and visual communication skills of drawing, painting, and scale model making. Emphasis on collaborative aspects of theatre set design. Prerequisite: THA 125 and (THA 110 or ART 133), or permission of the instructor. Offered in alternate years. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Studio class in the art and practice of costume design for the stage. Design techniques presented include approaches to text analysis, development of a conceptual point of view, design research methods, and visual communication skills of drawing and painting. Emphasis placed on the collaborative aspects of theatre costume design. Prerequisite: THA 125 and (THA 110 or ART 131) or permission of the instructor. Offered in alternate years. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). Techniques for building a character. Specific focus on the actor's approach to the text through work on auditions, monologues, and scenes. Students learn the necessary skills to analyze a scene, physicalize character intention, and play the character's essential action. Prerequisite: THA 140 or permission by instructor. May be repeated for degree credit.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Explores theatre as performance and cultural history as well as literary text. Geographic and temporal focus varies across Western and Eastern theatres from ancient classical periods up to the Early Modern era (1700s). Potential areas of study: Greece, Asia, Africa, the Americas, Medieval/ Renaissance Europe, ritual/religion, comic/popular theatre and women and theatre. Prerequisite: THA 110 or instructor's permission.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). Explores theatre as performance and cultural history as well as literary text. Geographic and temporal focus varies across world theatres from the late 1800s through the 21st century. Potential areas of study: Melodrama, Realism, Dada/Surrealism, Postcolonial Africa, People's Theatre, avantgarde and alternative companies, multicultural, women's, gay/lesbian and disabled theatre. Prerequisite: THA 110 or instructor's permission.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), May Term (3 credits). In-depth study of selected topics from the various theatre disciplines. Topics may include Dance, Mask Making, History of Stage Design, Lighting Design, Performance Styles, Playwriting, Scene Painting, Images of Disability in Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Women in Theatre. May be repeated for degree credit for a maximum of 16 credits. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Dramaturgical examination of a variety of play styles and critical paradigms. Approaches include performance, analysis, and research. Interpretive possibilities are explored through the concepts of given circumstances, dramatic action, character, story structure, and idea; essentials for releasing words on the page to action on the stage. Prerequisite: permission. Offered in alternate years.
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